“Just a reminder that Mary Oliver’s own answer to her question, ‘What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ was to stroll idly through the fields noticing things.”

Jessica Kantrowitz wrote that.

She went on —-

“The question out of context could appear to be about achieving more — it’s not.”

—- But then after she’d spent time “noticing things” quite well….

Anybody else need to reminded of such things as balance now and then?